Civil War & Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 1. Theory that a state could choose to whether to obey or enforce federal laws
  2. 7. military’s purpose to control who/what goes in or out of a place
  3. 9. The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union
  4. 11. Referred to as “The South”; which seceded from the Union in order to preserve slavery and states’ rights
Down
  1. 2. declared that all slaves in the Confederate states would be free.
  2. 3. Referred to as “The North”; believe that African Americans were meant to have free will and fought to abolish slavery.
  3. 4. system in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops
  4. 5. The concern and focus for regional needs and interests (the country was divided into north and south)
  5. 6. Act motivated by the need to fund the Civil War
  6. 8. Rule by military authority over civil authority during times of war and emergency
  7. 10. withdraw formally from something such as a nation